Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 2 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 3 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 4 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 5 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 6 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
| 7 | CONGRATULATIONS to electrician who completed 25 years service on . |
| 8 | ERNIE MARTIN , fund raiser for the Dawn Craggs Meningitis Appeal fund launched in memory of the Darlington 16-year-old who died six years ago . |
| 9 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 10 | Edvard Radzinsky — an author who spent 25 years researching the Tsar 's life — says : ‘ There is also a huge nostalgia for the monarchy . |
| 11 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |
| 12 | because er he 's just one person who remembers those years . |
| 13 | It was a very moving and challenging address , culminating in the acknowledgement that one person who underwent many years in Communist prisons , suffering hardships in mind and body was his own father . |
| 14 | SEAN YATES , the Briton who won this year 's Tour of Belgium , tested positive for steroids during the race , his lawyer said yesterday . |
| 15 | Wyatt , son of a store company heiress and a father who served six years for the manslaughter of an 18-year-old student , would never have dreamt of complaining . |
| 16 | it 's just some students that gra well mature student who graduated last year so anyway carry on . |
| 17 | The new streamlined ‘ Action Team ’ at L.D.P. in Leamington Spa , headed by Tony Fallon , Sales Manager with ( from right ) , Anna Harris , Sales Office Supervisor who has many years of experience with L.D.P. ; Natalie Anstey with the all round versatility of youth ; Cynthia Clark and Jan McGrath having strong accountancy/customer liaison skills and Cora Lake with a sales/marketing background . |
| 18 | The innocent man who spent two years in an Indian jail . |
| 19 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 20 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 21 | The game , which is sure to be a sell-out , has been organised as a memorial to Mervyn Brown , the former Irish League secretary who died last year after a long illness . |
| 22 | It was years later that my cousin who dies some years ago , he was ninety two . |
| 23 | There is widespread speculation that he was uncovered by Vladimir Kuzichin , a minor KGB official who defected last year . |
| 24 | J. deFeo , the influential West Coast painter who died six years ago , was introduced to New Yorkers in one of Dorothy Miller 's legendary ‘ Americans ’ shows at the Museum of Modern Art over thirty years ago . |
| 25 | Fiona Hunter , our nutritionist ( see below right ) , is a qualified dietician who spent six years working in the NHS . |
| 26 | To judge by the number who return each year , most enjoy the welcome and hospitality that Cornwall offers . |
| 27 | Challenge committee members and civic leaders outside the Moat House Hotel with : ( left to right ) Tom Cleator , chairman of Merseyside Macmillan Nurses Appeal , Tony O'Donnell , Dutch Consul on Merseyside , and Tom Payne of Boddington Pub Company who won last years Challenge trophy . |
| 28 | Abstract paintings on the boards this month include those of James Brooks , the first generation Abstract Expressionist who died last year aged eighty-five . |
| 29 | of Gillhouse Farm , Zeal Monachorum , is a rare breed enthusiast who bred this year 's champion Berkshire pig at the Devon County Show , she is exporting three large Blacks , ( two gilts and a boar ) and one Chester boar to a pig breeder in Port Stanley . |
| 30 | Its hero , Stanhope , a young officer who survived three years on the Western Front imbibing increasing quantities of whisky , saw death , the escape into nothingness , as the only answer to the squalor of the trenches and the daily horror of seeing brave men victims of the slaughter and wastage . |